activities

February – March ’10: breakcore_LABS events by HONF

breakcore_LABS continue their activities with the initiation of breakcore_LABS 0.6 – microcore for microCELLS 2010 (mini festival, preparation for Cellsbutton#04 – Invisible Cells), breakcore_LABS 0.6.1 – Nightly Build, breakcore_LABS 0.7.1 – Kek2keK, breakcore_LABS 0.7.2 – cok2cok Surabaya. All the news and reviews of breakcore_LABS is written in http://breakcorelabs.wordpress.com. The activities involving a workshop of pure data software in Design Product Department of Institute Technology Sepuluh November Surabaya. breakcore_LABS is trying to held a series of breakcore_LABS events in major cities in Indonesia.

read more @ breakcore_LABS site>>

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January – February 2010: /microCELLS

/microCELLS
>> a prelude to Cellsbutton#04 2010: “Invisible Cells”
Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival ( 27 July – 5 August 2010 )

The House of Natural Fiber (HONF) is proud to present microCELLS a pre – event of the incoming Cellsbutton#04 in July – August 2010. microCELLS will consist of interdisciplinary workshops, presentations and discussion during 9 January to 2 February 2010 as a test case for several “invisible” projects that will be initiated in Cellsbutton#04, 2010. microCELLS will consist many programs that is intended to be a platform for collaborative works and projects.

microCELLS primarily is set to be an introduction on HONF’s latest initiative project called Lab.2.Lab that was prepared and tested during YIVF#05, 2009. Lab.2.Lab will focus on work outputs and researches that have been done previously or still in working progress to be used in a working platform of collaborations based on interdisciplinary working method. In this long-term program, HONF will act as facilitators and also actors and decided to initiate microCELLS to be the event that will host Lab.2.Lab first phase. With several steps in Lab.2.Lab programs, HONF intend to use microCELLS in the creation of a team formation that will identify issues and problems in the early stages. microCELLS will help the team to prevent and minimalize problems in the next phases of the program.

read more @ HONF page

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December ’09: YIVF#05: Invisible Video – Everything Connected by HONF

What is Invisible Video? Where is the “invisibility” of the works that is displayed in YIVF#05? Many question thrown to us about Invisible Video. Well, in this edition of YIVF#05, The invisible that we mentioned is the invisibility of the participant existence. YIVF#05 will display the works of anyone disregarding who they are or their existence. We focus on the works itself and the infinite possibilities and creativity that could be achieved in the output of the works. read more @ invisible.natural.fiber.com page >>

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October – November ’09: Dislocate09 – Mediations of Locality

Mediating Locality is a project designed to bring distant localities together in a creative collaboration which examines their specific contexts, their needs and the challenges which they face, sharing their situations with each other and celebrating their diversity and unities. Mediation here refers to both the mediation of technology but also the mediation of negotiation, interpretation and communication. The aim of the project is to examine how we can link communities, form lasting cooperation and also tackle pressing issues, and to consider what role emerging technologies can play in this. This will of course necessitate discussion on access  and literacy of such technologies and how they can be adapted or utilized to benefit communities. read more @ dislocate09 page>>>

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August – September ’09: Ecolocated: Littoral Lives, M.A.R.I.N part of ISEA2009, Belfast UK and Abandon Normal Devices (AND) 2009, Liverpool UK

Ecolocated: Littoral Lives is a project by three artists, Tapio Mäkelä (FI), Nigel Helyer (AU) & Andreas Siagian (ID), in collaboration with the AudioNomad software team, Daniel Woo (AU), and Michael Lake (AU).

Ecolocated combines marine ecology data with location, sound, stills and video in an installation at the Catalyst Arts gallery.

Ecolocated is an exploration of littoral zones near Belfast, areas where human impact on the marine ecology is strongest and where local communities have a long association with the sea. The term littoral describes the juncture between land and sea, where the experience of the sea as an every day environment for marine life, work and leisure meets with historical and romantic sensibilities.

read more @ M.A.R.I.N. page>>>

read more @ ISEA2009 page>>>

read more @ AND Festival page>>>

see audio sonification of M.A.R.I.N.>>>

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August ’09: Cellsbutton#03 – Circlecells, Our Destitute Nation. Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival. by HONF

At the present time many young people lost their focus because of the hyper and attractive images of communication and technology. While the distance is becoming shorter to shorter through the fascination of technology, the gap of mutual relationship and understanding from one to another, become larger to larger. The youth living in a certain circumstantiate where they become more individualistic and blast by instantiate of information through technology.

The complex problems is we are travelling at breakneck speed into an age of extremes – extremes in wealth and poverty, extremes in technology and experiments that scientists want to perform, extreme forces of globalism, weapons of of mass destruction and terrorists acting in the name of religion. But meanwhile today most human beings especially young people in the third word countries are trapped in lifestyles or social conditions in which they develop only a fraction of their potential. Lives can be wasted in so many ways – drudgery work, watching bad television many hours a day, women being denied the potential that men have, and a shopping and consumerism culture. Most people could be much more creative. The potentials of human capability will become much greater because of the cornucopia of new technology and fundamental changes in the way enterprises are managed. read more @ HONF page>>>

collaborative performance @ cellsonic ’09

Unlike in previous Cellsbutton, cellSONIC in this episode is dedicated to commemorate a very influential figure in Yogyakarta Art scene. Sapto Raharjo (+), known as senior artist and founding figure in contemporary gamelan music have become an inspiration to the young artists and musician in Yogyakarta and Indonesia. HONF organized cellSONIC: A Tribute To Sapto Raharjo in forms of a concert as a small token of appreciation and admiration to Sapto Raharjo. read more>>>

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April – May ’09: upDATE! Slovenia – Romania – Czech Republic – Holland – France – Indonesia by HONF

During 1st April to 7th May 2009, HONF made trips to some countries on Europe. Some countries are part of HONF project called up:DATE. While Venzha was already involved to some projects/festivals in some countries of Europe since mid of February 2009.

The whole trip was involved Venzha Christ, Tommy Surya, Irene Agrivina, Muhammad Hidayat and Andreas Siagian, which some were part of up:DATE project, funded by Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF). up:DATE project is a collaborative project involving various artist groups, communities, institutions, festivals etc. read more @ HONF page>>>

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March ’09: brekcore_LABS 0.2 – Pork Eat Pork by HONF

As for continuity of the previous breakcore_labs, HONF are preparing to bring the second edition of breackcore_labs. This second edition now is in preparation stage to scheduled the event on Saturday, 14 March 2009. (Hell we wanted to make it on 11 March for supersemar!!! but it’s not on weekend). Until now HONF have confirmed several lineups for breakcore_labs 0.2 – pork eat pork. This magnificent pictures was taken from Indonesia eating behavior. Disregarding the pictures; Geez now I’m hungry… read more>>>

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Dec ’08: breakcore_LABS 0.1 by HONF

Breakcore_Labs is the first music event specifically for breakcore music genre in Indonesia, especially Yogyakarta. This program was launched for the closing party of the main program for YIVF#04 though the program itself have been planned to be a regular program in the future by HONF. The event launched at Jogja National Museum on 8 PM inside a space of contemporary art exhibition called Highlight. HONF organized Breakcore_Labs in conjunction with Taring Padi, an art community that celebrating their 10th anniversary on the following day. A special stage installation inside the space created from HONF members and YIVF#04 artists. After Breakcore event, the space later on that displaying a transdisciplinary art work by Venzha, combining experimental electronic sound instrument with biotechnology called: Bio-diversity Generic Sound Capacity <chronicle_therapy_01>.read more>>>

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Nov – Dec ’08: YIVF#04 | OUT OF IT! – Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival 2008 by HONF

YIVF – Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival is a community-based festival initiated by HONF in 2005. The festival focused on creativity and innovations on video, film, animations and visual graphic related work. YIVF serves as one of EFP program to accommodate public interest in video, which have been an accessible technology in daily practical life. read more>>>

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Nov ’08: a little project called cellsKID by HONF

This Workshop program for children is started in October 2008, right after Cellsbutton #02 ended. It was dedicated to providing high quality care, learning and sharing knowledge for children. Taken place at our new studio and residency place, we have created a nurturing environment where children can feel happy, confident, and proud of what they worked on and accomplish. Our program initiative is to provide a strong foundation in education through art activities for children’s academic success and our programs are focus in innovative, challenging and fun working process. We believed hands-on activity with sensory-rich materials is an enhance stimulation for children development and caused spontaneous learning to happen in miraculous ways. read more @ HONF page>>>

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selfNARRATIVE by HONF

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Oct ’08: nalareksa re-LIQUIFY! 0.2 [installation] at Art, Culture and Climate Change Dialogue, Beijing

The Dialogue on Art, Culture & Climate Change is an investigation into the role of culture and the arts in the cross-cultural dialogue on climate change between and in Asia and Europe. The Dialogue aims to raise the awareness on climate change and sustainability in cultural and arts communities in Asia and Europe and at investigating different perspectives on this subject. It also seeks to strengthen the role and the voice of culture and arts in the dialogue on and actions related to climate change. Furthermore, it aims to explore creative cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural connections between artists, scientists, and other climate change thinkers leading to joint approaches and collaborations for climate change actions. read more>>>

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Sep ’08: [Delay] interactive video installation – online collaboration with Adithep Duksukkaew (Job)

An online collaboration with Adithep Duksukkaew (Job), Thailand. Job was a visual artist  from 5th ASEF Artcamp and on his thesis, he would like to create an interactive video installation using pure data open source software. Using PiDiP; a group of additional video objects for Pure Data Packet, and webcam, the final presentation installation on October, 2008 in Bangkok was a success after several trials. We would like to enhanced this installation in the future. read more>>>

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Aug ’08: CELLSBUTTON#02 – WE ARE THE CELLS! – Yogyakarta Media Art Festival 2008 by HONF

Cellsbutton #02  – We are the CELLS! will focus on education of aesthetic research in art and technology. Cellsbutton #02 wants to emerge any potential local cultural issues and aspects through the context of technology implementation. Also, Cellsbutton #02 serves as a facilitator in the duration of collaborative working process that will be started by transferring knowledge through research, workshops, meetings, presentations, gatherings and discussions. HONF believe that education is an essential aspect to achieve mutual relations between human and technology. By this perception, Cellsbutton #02 will be formatted to accommodate individual or communities interest on working in media art fields. One important reason is that there are no media courses or media faculties in Indonesia. But in HONF perspective, technology can offer many possibilities for artistic development. Hence we want to make new networking possibilities: between universities with expertise and art schools that can offer the aesthetic context for media art. read more @ HONF page>>>

nalareksa boys/girls 0.1 [installation] at CELLSBUTTON#02

An analog and digital composition sound installation on an exhibition for Cellsbutton#02, 2008 in Culture Centre de France (LIP) 19 August 2008. Sample gathering process: By collecting air sample in the environment, theoretically; if gas encounters water, then some part of the gas will be absorbed to water. Eventually, there will be an equilibrium, which means the amount of elements released by the water to the air will be equal to the amount of elements that absorbed by air and water. By placing quadraphonic ears on each tube, I simulate the environment within the tube as the sample gathering is processed. The sound then combined with sounds from pure data patches using sound from the environment creating a sound layers in the exhibition. read more>>>

cybrefibre [performance] at cellSONIC

It’s a special day for Indonesia, and it’s a special day for Cellsbutton#02. As Indonesia celebrates it’s 63th independence day, Cellsbutton welcome Cellsonic as its’ peak event and performance in the festival. Cellsonic was held in PPPPTK; a school for art teachers and workers located 11 km north of Yogyakarta. Inside the beautiful complex lies an outdoor small circle stadium-like for art performance. The Cellsonic stage located in the centre of the stadium. read more>>>

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May ’08: pd patch squareGEM

This patch could be use for visual purpose interacting with sound input in computer. Using basic objects from pure data, the patch could manipulate basic objects such as square, triangle, cube, sphere, etc. The visual outputs of the patch will be vary depending on the sound input and also user’s control on the patch. This patch is actually my favorite since it was developed with a simple concept on generating object using pure data. However, this patch is not user friendly to those of you unfamiliar with pure data. read more>>>

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April ’08: pd patch pidip for vjing

A pure data patch created for visual jockeying purpose. This patch is created by mixing native pure data objects with several chosen PDP (Pure data is Definitely in Pieces) objects. Basically PDP objects uses Quicktime player and open GL in macintosh OS X as medium to display the outputs. This patch however, has been modified to be user friendly as it could be learn and control easily for VJing purpose. read more>>>

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March ’08: re-VISION Bangkok | 5th Asia Europe Art Camp 2008 (visit 5th Art Camp Blog)

As part of the Asia-Europe Art Camp series, this Fifth edition of the camp, re-Vision Bangkok|New Media Art and interactivity, will gather 20 emerging artists or last year students from various ASEM countries to explore the possibility of connecting new media art practices to the relational aesthetic concept coined by Nicolas Bourriaud, French critic and curator. read more>>>

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May ’06: Kingdom Of Rebel Malaysia

May 2006, Kingdom of Rebel Project in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), I represent 10:05 News to give a workshop about DIY sub-culture media. The workshop are involving Irene Agrivina (head editor, founder 10:05), Erno Keyfla (Editor Playazz magz) on a 2 hour session discussing the role of media in bridging creative communities in Yogyakarta. The whole project also present a presentation from Venzha about his projects and HONF, VJ workshop by vjnumberone, electronic music workshop by midiJUNKIE (Soundboutique), DJ workshop by The Works (Malaysia). The sesion is closed with a collaborative performance between HONF and local artists from Malaysia.>> read more on Kingdom Of Rebel Malaysia page

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August ’05: alignment analysis program 2.0

Alignment Analysis Program (AAP 2.0) is a software written in Visual Basic 6.0 programming language that is developed to assist Civil Engineers in designing and constructing efficient and safe highways and roads especially in urban region. AAP 2.0 will focus on urban highway geometrical planning and designs, horizontal and vertical alignment calculations using Urban Highway Geometrical Planning Standard (SPGJP) in 1992 that is used as a national standard for highway constructions in Indonesia.Geometrical designs such as Horizontal and Vertical alignments establish the general character of a rural highway, perhaps more than any other design consideration.  The configuration of line and grade affects safe operating speeds, sight distances, and opportunities for passing and highway capacity. A “not-well designed alignments” will create unnecessary large cuts and fills, resulting in very dramatic and often undesirable changes to the natural landscape. To ensure the most effective coordination of horizontal and vertical alignments is the use of a multidisciplinary design team during the planning and engineering phases of a project. AAP 2.0 will help Civil Engineers to provide accurate calculations and designs variables for the constructions of Urban Highway. read more>>>